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There is a slight difference between teaching kids that guns are dangerous and teaching kids how to use them.
You can also totally teach kids the dangers of car traffic without having them drive one.
Kids used to learn gun safety classes and even bring their guns to school for target practice later.
Sheltering kids from guns in a country with more guns than people is not a good decision.
Normalizing using them is also not a good decision.
And I must confess, such statements sound so completely bizarre to me that I instantly think them to be satire.
Brother, it's already normalized. Acting like keeping kids ignorant will stop gun violence is a fairytale dream. Literally every person who takes a gun class gets drilled through all of it to NEVER point it at anyone. It's not just about learning how to use them, it's about how to be safe with them. Do you also think teaching a kid defensive driving before they can drive is useless?
I am actually somewhat with you on that.
But you don't need to do active shooting (or even have access to a real gun) to drill that.
I'm of the opinion that teaching stuff has to be hands-on, especially with the bad attention span of children nowadays. I don't learn very much from theory, and I think a lot of neurodivergent kids don't do it, either.
I'm just saying that, in a country where there's more guns than people, keeping children ignorant of the realities of handling a gun safely is a liability.